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Home of the Spodplane
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Date: 7-17-2021
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Number of Hours: 3.00
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Manual Reference: 09-07
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Brief Description: Main gear fairings and heatshield
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Over the last week in small doses, trimmy, trimmy all OK, but the forward top flange is a little undersized. Box taped the leg, brake line and fairing for release and refit the cover. I didn't take any pictures of this for some reason. It is a bit cramped down here, and I have knocked over my tripod 3 times, twice with the camera on it. 2 filters gave their lives to protect the lens...
Filled the gap on the inboard gear fairing with modelling clay, with a 1/4" fillet to the cover.
Cut 4 x BID to a paper template, wet out on and transferred with peel ply, overlapping the cover and the taped gear leg by 1".
Been meaning to experiment with an upper gear fairing for a while. Most people attach the fairing to the fuselage side and the gear leg with the weight off it, then cut it. This makes it aerodynamic in flight, and allows the leg to flex on the ground, but leaves a visible gap and misalignment. I have been pondering a fairing that floats on the leg and side, and is held against the side by a spring, maybe to the gear tabs?
I put 3 layers of duct tape over the gear leg, and box taped the result and the side. I hot glued a bit of 3mm ply to form the trailing edge profile and taped it. I spread modelling clay into a fillet, smoothed to an even radius with a 1 1/2" plastic pipe forward, and extended into a pleasing shape aft. This is just the top half. I'll make another for the starboard side, and revisit the concept when the fuselage is inverted for finishing.
Wet out 4 x UND at 30 degrees fore and aft on peel ply and transferred to the fillet.
After days of trying got the starboard brake cover off the form, pulling a lot of paint off with it. Maybe it was affected by the previous layup. Rough trimmed it to 1/4" from the port profile, marked the centerline and
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Heatshield bracket before outer skin
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Inside, with cover mounting bracket
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